Barely holding onto consciousness, Rumi looked behind Medina to see none other than Eve standing there.

  Eve had appeared wearing a cloak with a large Y-shaped cross emblazoned on it, holding scripture in one hand and holy water in the other, reciting the scripture song learned in the exorcism class.

  "You evil spirits shall remember your sin of betrayal upon seeing my form."

  Just then something like a piece of paper fell from Eve's scripture.

  "I sing and dance before you, so slaves of death shall hide their form and flee to dark and empty places."

  Eve's face looked like she was about to die from fear, but her pronunciation was clear.

  To Rumi, it was a perfect exorcism ritual.

  The zombie Medina didn't seem to react much to the exorcism ritual, but it must have had some effect as she gradually loosened her grip and let go of Rumi.

  Eve stood frozen watching the zombie Medina stand up.

  And the zombie Medina slowly descended the stairs and disappeared down the corridor stretching north on the first floor.

  In that situation, neither Rumi nor Eve dared think of following the zombie Medina.

  "Huff and puff..."

  Rumi, who had narrowly escaped death, lay there massaging her neck.

  But now that she noticed, her arm hurt incomparably more than her neck.

  She was in no condition to get up by herself.

  "Hey Eve, help me up... ugh..."

  When Rumi tried to ask Eve for help, tears suddenly poured from Eve's eyes.

  "..."

  Eve didn't seem to be in any state to help Rumi up either.

  Rumi somehow managed to get up by herself. And picked up the piece of paper that had fallen from Eve's scripture.

  But the paper piece turned out to be a torn photograph.

  Moreover, it looked like quite a meaningful family photo of Eve's.

  There was a man in a black suit sitting in a chair in the center, with what appeared to be a young Eve on one side and a woman in a white dress emitting white light on the other.

  The strangest thing was that the faces of the person sitting in the center and the person in the white dress were torn out.

  Fortunately, Eve was too busy crying to notice Rumi looking at the photo.

  Rumi led Eve to the dorm without touching her.

  "Let's go in..."

  Rumi sat Eve on the bed and ostentatiously poured several bottles of holy water over her own hands and head.

  Then she patted the tear-dropping Eve.

  "Um... I didn't know Medina's... corpse was alive either..."

  Honestly, Rumi didn't know what to say in this situation.

  She just thought she should casually hand over the photo she had picked up earlier.

  "Hey, this fell from your scripture earlier, is it something important?"

  Eve's eyes grew as wide as they could when she saw the photo in Rumi's hand and she hurriedly took it.

  "Why is this..."

  "Well, seems it was important... For reference, I didn't see anything. Well... it looked like a family photo but it was all torn up so there wasn't much to see."

  "You... you saw everything!"

  "But who were the people in the photo? Were they your parents?"

  "... ...!"

  Eve glared at Rumi as if cursing her with her eyes after hearing that question.

  "Haha, just asking... Do you need anything?"

  "Umm... just bring me some holy water."

  "Okay..."

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  When Rumi brought the holy water, Eve drank it down with trembling hands.

  Then sprinkled the remaining holy water on her hands and body.

  After finishing a short prayer next, she lifted her head.

  "Is your neck okay?"

  Eve asked Rumi in a still nasally voice.

  "Yeah... but my arm hurts more than my neck. Ugh."

  "Sigh... I knew you were crazy but I didn't know you were this crazy. I should have stopped you..."

  Eve spoke as if with regret.

  "Th-that's right. You should have stopped me!"

  Rumi said sincerely.

  Eve glared at Rumi again.

  "Hey, but if I hadn't gone out, we wouldn't have known Medina's corpse was possessed by another ghost wandering the school."

  "Are you saying that to make me feel better?"

  "No, I mean the opposite... this is completely wrong. Wrong in a way we never imagined..."

  Eve squeezed her eyes shut hearing Rumi's words.

  "And... that Medina saw both our faces..."

  Eve said in a slightly trembling voice.

  "Let me be clear. I'm absolutely not condoning you wandering around outside... But I can't deny there are suspicious things."

  "Right? I knew it. Unless you're a ghost or an idiot, you had to think so."

  "Actually that's not the only suspicious thing. I know why the others wouldn't wake up no matter how much you tried."

  "What...?"

  Eve paused for a moment before continuing.

  "I think there's sleeping pills in the holy water the school gives out."

  "What...? Sleeping pills? How... did you figure that out?"

  "Actually I tried to stay awake until dawn to watch you last night but got sleepy.

  I'm not the type to fall asleep easily when I'm determined not to sleep, but falling asleep like that means only one thing...

  Then when I woke up in the morning, I remembered how you spat out the holy water saying it tasted strange.

  At first, I definitely thought you were just being crazy, but I also noticed the silver holy water given out by the school at night actually tastes different from regular holy water.

  So yesterday I tried not drinking the holy water from school and really didn't fall asleep.

  So there's a high chance sleeping pills is in the holy water."

  "Eve, you're more hardcore than I thought, not drinking holy water for a reason like that."

  "I just didn't drink the school's holy water. I drank holy water I made myself!"

  Eve flared up.

  "So what I want to say is, while there might be various reasons they give out sleeping pills to drink at night, it is still suspicious..."

  "But come to think of it, you knew that we wouldn't wake up and didn't say anything?"

  "I didn't know they really wouldn't really wake up then, and why would I mention that to you?"

  "Ah, okay... So the reason why you're saying this now is, are you thinking of helping uncover secrets too? Like you said, you're now one of two students who saw Medina's corpse.

  Plus, you saw some unknown ghost is possessing Medina's corpse."

  "Don't misunderstand, I'm not risking my life anymore because of you. Getting involved and green... hah... nevermind."

  Eve sighed deeply, stopping mid-sentence.

  "I'm going to sleep now, I couldn't sleep at all because of you!"

  With that, Eve lay down on her bed with her back to Rumi.

  Rumi quietly watched Eve lying with her back turned.

  "Hey... Eve, thanks for saving me anyway."

  When Rumi expressed her gratitude, Eve's shoulder twitched slightly.

  Shortly after, Rumi climbed onto her own bed too.

  And lying there trying to sleep again, she strangely felt today's events weren't all that bad.

  Even though she had been in mortal danger, she had gained more information.

  And she thought about how to tell the others this shocking adventure in the morning and what to do next.

  The next day when the sun was high, the students gathered in the library. And they deliberately sat together near where Medina had been cursed.

  "That's really true?"

  Rumi rolled up her sleeve to show her severely bruised arm like a badge of honor.

  "Look at this."

  "Rumi, what is this? This is really bad. You should go to the infirmary..."

  Raoul's eyes widened.

  "Can't go to the infirmary. Anyone can see this is an injury from being grabbed by some monster, and if word accidentally gets to the teachers, we'll all end up like Medina."

  "But still..."

  "But by that logic, aren't you and Eve already in grave danger? The culprit saw you both directly."

  Malcolm opened his mouth with quite a serious expression after seeing Rumi's arm.

  Raoul's face grew even more serious hearing those words.

  "I don't know... but honestly, if Medina had truly tried to kill me last night, I'd already be dead..."

  "Then aren't you already as good as a dead person walking?"

  "Watch your words, Malcolm."

  Raoul glared at Malcolm with a serious expression. Then he spoke again.

  "So summarizing the current situation, some evil spirit or whatever put a curse on Medina and killed her, and that someone is possessing Medina's corpse plotting something. Rumi, you even got strangled in the process.

  Plus, the teachers seem to be hiding something while giving out sleeping pills at night."

  "Yeah that's about right..."

  "W-what's going to happen to us now?"

  Niel asked worriedly after hearing Raoul's words.

  But the other students had nothing particular to say about this Hopeless situation either.

  "Should we look for Medina again?"

  Rumi said.

  "That's like saying you want to die."

  Malcolm answered stiffly again.

  "No, I mean maybe we should look for Medina's real soul."

  "But if the culprit took over Medina's body like that, they probably didn't leave Medina's real soul alone either. There's a high chance she really became an evil spirit."

  Malcolm countered.

  "That's probably true but as long as she's not sealed somewhere, couldn't we still talk to her even if she became an evil spirit?"

  Rumi spoke based on her experience of conversing with the grandmother evil spirit.

  "But wandering the corridors at night to find a soul we don't even know the location of, is insane."

  "..."

  Silence fell as Rumi and Malcolm conversed.

  Then Raoul, who had been thinking deeply, spoke up.

  "Then what about summoning the soul instead?"

  "What...? Where would there be such a... oh...?"

  Rumi was about to ask where such a method existed when she just remembered she had summoned the grandmother evil spirit herself.

  "Ah! Then I know a way to summon evil spirits."

  The students all looked at Rumi as if dumbfounded.

  "Wouldn't that be the worst method..."

  Niel said carefully.

  "Hmm... Rumi, like Niel says, that method should be a last resort. So first we should try normal spirit summoning rituals, and if we still can't find Medina's soul then we might consider that."

  Seeing their reactions, Rumi remembered the possessed apple that had vomited.

  "I guess that's true...?"

  "But the problem is even with normal spirit summoning rituals, summoning the soul of an actually dead person..."

  Raoul contemplated for a while before speaking again.

  "I think I might know someone we could ask to teach us such a spirit summoning ritual... Let me look into this more."

  Rumi didn't know exactly what or how Raoul planned to look into, but he seemed to have something in mind so she decided to leave this to him.

  "Then please look into it as quickly as possible... It would be terrible if something else happens and Medina becomes too corrupted to even talk to."